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  • Kuala Kubu Baru, with the kind of padang that you see at the schools, the view from the golf resort or the streams, those waterfalls, is a national darling.

    nst online 2010

  • Rest in Peace bro, you'll be in our hearts forever. charlline: Watching tv one while crying hear the victims of padang earthquake noranbakrie: have collecting news since this morning about my jambi relatives, they are all okay, post-earthquake.phew. thank you god. methanoor: earthquake 7. 6sR in my home 2 days ago .. huvb huvb,, i hope all of my friend and my family safe,,,

    In Indonesia, Thousands Still Trapped Under Rubble 2009

  • DH and I shared a Vegetarian Rice Table, or rijsttafel often misspelled rijstaffel, a Dutch word that literally translates to "rice table", and is an elaborate meal adapted by the Dutch from the Indonesian feast called nasi padang:

    Archive 2009-09-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009

  • DH and I shared a Vegetarian Rice Table, or rijsttafel often misspelled rijstaffel, a Dutch word that literally translates to "rice table", and is an elaborate meal adapted by the Dutch from the Indonesian feast called nasi padang:

    VANCOUVER WEEKEND: GRANVILLE ISLAND, EXOTIC VEG EATING Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009

  • Heath forest can recover from a padang, but this takes a very long time to do.

    Sundaland heath forests 2008

  • Had nasi padang for lunch as we were trying to avoid the pork-infested restaurants.

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2003

  • Remember that you will need two slip cuttings per drill (planting hole) if the grass is a fibrous rooting type (e.g. babiyo, kans, khar, phurke, etc.) but only one if it is rhizomatous (e.g. amliso, padang bans, etc.), and only one rooted stem cutting or seedling.

    3.1 Planted grass lines: contour/horizontal 1999

  • Within rows: plants at 100 mm centres (except padang and tite nigalo bans, which should be spaced at 500 mm centres)

    3.1 Planted grass lines: contour/horizontal 1999

  • Some grasses have a rhizome system (e.g. amliso and the small bamboos, padang and tite nigalo).

    4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

  • Within rows: plants at 100 mm centres (except padang and tite nigalo bans, which should be spaced at 500 mm centres)

    3.1 Planted grass lines: contour/horizontal 1999

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  • "'Fortunately,' he said, laughing, 'there are always these beautiful fish, the padangs. They cruise along in twos and threes just behind the break of the wave when the tide is making, and they take a feather or a shaped piece of bacon-rind, just like the bass at home.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 249

    March 5, 2008